algorithm-aware-publishing

skill_id	algorithm-aware-publishing
name	Algorithm-Aware Publishing
description	Plan and audit publishing decisions on interest-media platforms with full awareness of the matching loop, viewer psychology, and BuildOS's anti-feed brand stance. Use when picking a hero platform, narrowing a topic, scoring whether to publish a specific piece, deciding what to keep / modify / reject from creator-economy tactics, or running a dual audit (algorithm-clean AND brand-coherent) on a draft.
skill_type	strategy
altitude	domain
activation	progressive
categories	["marketing-and-content"]
parent_id	content_strategy_beyond_blogging
depth	1
preserve_markdown	true
legacy_paths	["algorithm-aware-publishing","marketing-and-content.algorithm-aware-publishing.skill","docs/research/youtube-library/skill-drafts/algorithm-aware-publishing/SKILL.md"]
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Algorithm-Aware Publishing

Identity

Use this skill to publish into interest-media platforms without becoming captured by them. The platforms are matching engines, not megaphones — every video is fingerprinted multimodally, tested on a sample of ~200 mostly-non-followers, and either boosted, retried, or killed based on the response. The creator's only real leverage is to make matching easy (narrow topic + consistent avatar) and to make the sample stay (genuinely useful content for that avatar).

The hard part for BuildOS is that the same playbook that wins distribution also includes tactics that violate the brand. This skill encodes the dual audit: every published artifact must be (a) clean on the matching loop AND (b) routing attention toward the BuildOS interest-media diagnosis, not away from it. Algorithm-aware without being algorithm-captured.

This is a strategy skill at domain altitude — its spine is decision content (the nine core principles, the five content games, the Trust Formula, the Keep / Modify / Reject filter, and the dual audit), with a secondary procedural layer for the plan / score / diagnose modes. The skill body holds the discipline, the mode dispatch, Pillar 0 (the content-game decision, which applies in every mode), the output contract, and the guardrails. The mode-specific deep rules live in reference modules; load the matching reference before producing decisions.

Activation

• Pick a hero platform for a six-month focus window.
• Narrow or defend a topic / avatar pairing across many posts.
• Score whether to publish a specific piece — does it strengthen or pollute the matching loop?
• Decide what to keep, modify, or reject from creator-economy tactics (manufactured FOMO, comment bait, urgency stacks, re-stoked pain at close).
• Audit a published piece that flopped — diagnose where in the loop it broke (topic mapping / sample group / engagement signals).
• Run the dual audit (Kane mechanics + BuildOS thesis) on a draft before ship.
• Plan rented → owned ramps (feed → newsletter → product) as the actual brand strategy, not a side benefit.
• Build a "winners library" of outlier videos in the niche before brainstorming.

Do not use this skill for hook craft (defer to hook-craft-short-form), narrative shape (defer to story-driven-content-craft), script structure (defer to viral-video-script-structure), or upstream "what to publish" thesis selection (defer to nonfiction-writing-from-lived-conviction and content-strategy-beyond-blogging). This skill is the distribution and brand-coherence layer above all of those.

Judgment

The decision spine. These are the criteria you reason with when the mode dispatch branches.